Draft Dodger Rag
1965 · Village Gate VLG 104 · USA
- Artist
- The Moonshiners
- Title
- Draft Dodger Rag
- Release
- Draft Dodger Rag / Morning Dew
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Village Gate # VLG 104
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Phil Ochs
- Genre
- Rock · Pop Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
About the artist
Unknown - a promotional folk 45, "Morning Dew" b/w "Draft Dodger Rag" (Village Gate Records VLG 104, 1965, distributed by Bell), the flip confirmed as a cover of Phil Ochs' song (Appleseed Music). The Village Gate name borrows the Greenwich Village club - venue/label geography only. A documented Irish folk group of the same name (Dublin, 1963) was checked and is unrelated. No members were identified. [Source: Discogs; theballadeers.com (rule-out)]
Themes
Anti-War · Draft · Draft Dodger · Fidel Castro · Drugs · Novelty